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Alida Visbach has been a member of the growing and vibrant tourism industry in Calgary since she moved there in 2005 to work on an exciting expansion project that has seen the Park double in size. Her 30 plus years of tourism and museum experience spans a career rich and diverse, from the management of attractions to the sales, marketing, and operations of hotels to the representation of a province’s tourism and artisan products on the international stage, to her position as President and Chief Executive Officer at Heritage Park Historical Village.
As a tourism professional, Visbach has served on numerous provincial and national tourism associations and committees, including the Chair of the 2000 Atlantic Canada Showcase Marketplace. She has also sat as an Executive Board member of Team Canada, a Board member of the Atlantic Canada Tourism Partnership and been a member of the advisory Boards of the New Brunswick Tourism Task Force, the Tourism Associations of the Cities of Fredericton, Moncton and Saint John, New Brunswick. She sat on the Board of Directors for Tourism Calgary from 2007 to 2009 during that organization’s transitional period, as well as serving on the Executive of the SKAL International Club of Calgary where she is a Past President and Director.